Fustee

Quick meaning: Fustee is a noun meaning (uncommon, dated or historical, now offensive) A person who is of 1/16 black ancestry, the child of a mustee and a white.

Meaning

(uncommon, dated or historical, now offensive) A person who is of 1/16 black ancestry, the child of a mustee and a white.

More Meanings

1. (rare) A caravel or other (Spanish) ship.

Example Sentences

[…] very sly— very odd, indeed! married, eh? or run off with a mustee or fustee, you dog?—eh?

[…] producing such admixtures as half-breeds, mulattos, quadroons, quintroons, octoroons, and fustees, etc. There may also have been a fusion of whites and Indians, which produces the mestee or mestizos; […]

THE COLORED RACE IN BRITISH GUIANA. The race designated and known in the United States as colored is here known and designated as follows, viz : Black, Cob, Mulatto, Mustee, Costee, and Fustee. But for the purposes of this report it is deemed proper to […]

Figueros, the ambassador, has been instructed to provide you with a fustee or caravel for your passage to Barcelona. […] The fustees going to Marseilles, and being admitted into that port, king Francis redeemed for 700 ducats the Muscovite ambassador now residing at the French court, whilst Moorish and Turkish pirates are allowed shelter in French ports.

Word Forms

• fustees

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fustick, fastilarian, fust, fustilugs, fusteric, fustoc.

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